Kevin's Healing Journey: Holden Arboretum

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Holden Arboretum - October 4, 2019

Kevin and I met Grandma at Holden Arboretum in Kirtland on Friday. It was the first cool fall day of the season and a great way to kick-off his birthday weekend! Holden's was setting up Goblins in the Garden for this weekend...so it was a great day to visit and see some of their creative halloween displays. We took a guided tram tour that ended with walking inside the branches of a tree...but the highlight was walking across the canopy. The Canopy Walk is a 500 feet long elevated walkway built 65 feet above the forest floor. We're looking forward to going again to see a different season like spring or summer. We also have to return and see if we can climb all the steps to the top of the Emergent Tower, a wooden tower that rises 120 feet above the forest floor. Plenty of trees and plants and flowers to see in the 3,500 acres of Holden's.

Weeping Beech Tree

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This blog was created to keep our family and friends updated on Kevin's healing journey. It is also our hope that others may find this blog to give help and hope to other delayed kids.

About Kevin

They told us Kevin would never walk or talk. But with lots of prayers, hard work, and extra hands, he began walking when he was four years old and we continue to have faith and hope as we wait patiently for his speech to develop. Kevin is now eight years old. He is diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy due to a brain-injury he had before birth that was caused by a stroke. In 2006, before Kevin was 2 years old, we found Glenn Doman’s book "What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child" that had answers to help children with special needs and developmental delays. We began an individualized home treatment program for Kevin immediately and have been dedicated to our program ever since. We spent three years with the Doman family at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP) and now we are with Matthew and Carol Newell at The Family Hope Center (FHC). Twice a year we return to Philadelphia where Kevin receives a neurological evaluation to determine the progress he has made in the last six months. Then they provide us with an individualized, program that puts me in charge to help Kevin develop and reach his fullest potential.

Do You Know a Delayed Child?

The best recommendation we can give to another parent with a special needs or developmentally delayed child (brain-injured, brain-damaged, mentally retarded, mentally deficient, cerebral-palsied, epileptic, autistic, athetoid, hyperactive, attention deficit disordered, developmentally delayed, or down's) is to read Glenn Doman's book What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child and/or Dr. Coralee Thompson and Dr. Philip Maffetone's book Healthy Brains, Healthy Children. By simply reading these books, you will gain valuable information to help your child which will begin to unlock the potential your child has. And best of all you will learn that there are other options to helping your child that you can do yourself. We would also highly recommend attending the parent course at FHC or IAHP. To read how our journey began and the successful progress Kevin has had refer to the January 2010 blog archive.